If you publish using DM’s Guild you are are the tenant in a digital sharecropping scheme.

By publishing on their platform with it’s attendant licensing agreement, you are living on their land. You pay for that tenancy with your creative work. You make content and can only sell it on their platform if it uses their IP. On one hand, you get access to a large market and can make more income that way. On the other hand, WotC gets the majority of the actual value from your work.

It can be very positive for you but comes with the same risks sharecropping farmers face when their landlord changes the terms of the deal.

You can be wiped out if they change the terms, decide your content breaks some new content standard, block you from the site, go to a new edition or modify their discovery algorithm that limits the visibility of your product, or simply decide to shut down DM’s Guild.

Publishing on DM’s Guild is submission to the Gold Rule. The people with the gold get to make the rules.